To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

To think too much is a disease.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!

I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

I don't know what my future is.

Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.